braid

jamescobo u kno I like ur style but c'mon man!

Great of that news to come less than a week after I get a 360 mostly to play this (and Monkey Island). Oh well, still worth it.

if, if you are going to play this soon and care about 200'ing it I suggest u look up spoilers for the secret stars beforehand cos there's no way you'll work them out without a guide

don't look up spoilers for any of the main stars tho else u r a noob

I'm most of the way through! About 5 left on world 6. I looked up one though, I am a noob :( Related to what I assume Will was complaining about upthread, I figured out the extra mechanic in World 2 but then come the same stage in the next world I bcame so certain there was something similar that I looked up to see why it wasn't working and saw the real answer.

(and Monkey Island).

Wait. What?

monkey island is on xbla now, mordy

The new episodic Telltale one??

um I thought it was an HD remake of the old one w/new art but iunno, haven't heard of this telltale one

I might be wrong

Yeah just the remake, although seems like it might get the new one eventually. Hope so as the Wii one is almost unplayable.

i should see if i can get keith or stet to code an autofill button that just enters "the Wii one is almost unplayable", might save a lot of time.

Im too stupid to get these puzzles right and too proud to look up answers, hence I havent played this game in what seems like a year

morelike brAIDS amirite

BRAid

sadly my final take on this is kind of meh tbf

would play BRA ID btw

this game was fun but the design is like so purposefully obscure that its not fun to just "play" its only fun to "solve" and the story is like mindrape

I think I only like puzzle games when they're completely abstract and self-contained; story-based puzzle games like Braid and The Lost Vikings just strike me as tarted-up and stupid for whatever reason. I mean, I don't need a reason to keep playing Pic Pic, y'know?

for obvious reasons I am avoiding Professor Layton as if it were a jar of mayonnaise left in the sun. really, the biggest exception to the rule I can think of is Puzzle Quest, and even then it was the combination of Puzzles + Stat Management that hooked me, not Puzzles + Story.

I just started playing the full version of this, having (minimally) read about it in a few places. Just as aggravating as any other puzzle game I've played, although the added gimmicks on each world throw things into the mix. I'm fairly easy to please with games, so it's definitely some fun. I realized that the character does a little head-bobbing motion if you try to activate something and there's nothing there, so I wasted about thirty seconds by doing it repeatedly and then rewinding to make it look like he was headbanging. I hope I'm not the only one.

xp. I loved Braid and I have no idea what the story was since it seemed like a bunch of pseud-shit, didn't detract from my enjoyment. Also like, the story to Lost Vikings isn't exactly a prominent feature of the game.

this is cheap on steam this weekend. worth getting?

I think there's a thread somewhere on ILG where people talk about it.

lol behave! yeah definitely worth the £3 odd it's going for this weekend on steam

You can debate _how_ good of a game is, but you'd be hard pressed to argue that it's not a good platformer. Fun, engaging and brief with loads of other shit to think about and deal with or not as your tastes lie.

$5 definitely the price i want to bite on it, but my Mac stalwart self is forcing me not to, gotta support the few good games that are ported to Mac... there desperately need to be more Mac game sales

well, i've paid for it now but haven't downloaded it yet. booted into windows for first time in about a month and something downloaded 100M of updates(?) without asking.

just arrived on PSN.

spent about 90 mins on it last night and apart from flower, its the only game my GF will allow on the television when she's in the room.

So already it's worth the price.

You should get a new gf.

this game is kind of pretty and ugly at the same time

yeh the backgrounds are ok, but the character sprites are butt ugly

that little fucker and his fucking tie

the music is pretty bad, as my friend remarked when i was playing it, it kind of sounds like it should be soundtracking a canadian tv movie about irish fishermen in newfoundland or something

totally disagree and i know i'm inviting hella potshots, but i listened to the soundtrack a great deal last and this year.

my loyalty to braid is basically: it is so so rare & exciting in 2009 to meet a game that doesn't treat you like a retard.

emotional retard is still a retard

sounds like it should be soundtracking a canadian tv movie about irish fishermen in newfoundland

this is part of the reason it is great. The other part is that they needed music that would be ok when played backwards and mariachi music set to a 4/4 techno drumbeat wouldn't cut it.

Its weird how some of the puzzles in later levels you get immediately, but some of them in the earlier levels you just can't seem to get.

without shame i'll admit i consulted youtube walkthroughs to complete certain levels, and this didn't compromise my enjoyment of the game and its puzzles one iota.

Elevator Action level, I kill you.

This game is all kinds of great.

ilg you're my only hope. convince me to continue this irritating game. i'm a few worlds in and i keep skipping the painting bits because i find the puzzles infuriating rather than clever and engaging.

things got a little better when i found more of the ffwd/rewind controls up on the triggers, thanks a lot useless help screen.

does the writing stay this insufferable?

of note i totally appreciate what this game is trying to do, but something about it angers me; the time manipulation felt better in the ps2 prince of persia when it was married to action; the kind of "bet you cant get here" stuff always worked better for me in a metroid-type game where i knew the main character felt CAPABLE in some way that braid's guy does not.

mostly this makes me want to go back and play portal again

If you don't like the puzzles, I don't think you're going to start liking the puzzles. It's not worth playing for the story alone.

I think the puzzles in Braid are largely better than the puzzles in Portal.

portal has a lot more replay value to it tho

braid is trash & way to overimpressed w/itself. if u dont like the puzzles then theres absolutely nothing there 4 u

Braid has my favourite puzzles of any game - they are genuinely hard and genuinely fair. If you don't like them you should quit and play something else!

Braid doesn't seem impressed with itself if you never read any of those book things.

i quit a few worlds in and never went back

if u dont like the puzzles then theres absolutely nothing there 4 u
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got to agree w/this but don't see why that makes it trash

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_wl7bInMIo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvsZOcdxHpI
^better indication of how lame this likely was

Uh…

Where do I begin... Braid has changed my life. I thought I was once another lost soul in this infinite universe, but know I have realized I am the son and the father of chaos and anarchy. One mind, one body, one soul woven, "braided," into space and time. This game makes you look into the darkest caves of the mind, the depths of mankind, until you reach the madness in search for an answer, for her. Defying the law of physics to reach the goal of salvation. Our whole lives we fight the evil, and strive to conquer our demons, but in the end we are the demons. We are the universe observing itself. We are the universe destroying itself.

this is $2 on steam for a couple days so i got it, opened this thread hoping someone would say like, we figure out he was the bad guy all along or smth, but jesus this "story" !!

it's like... an extreme for terrible indie game writing. it's the unfortunate thing about so many talented people w/backgrounds and livelihoods in computers and not basic storytelling. sometimes it can be a good thing (! pixar movies have mostly been written by animators) but so much of the time it's just this basic lazy drivel about some boring breakup barely translated into anything anyone would ever care about especially cause the writer just comes off as a misogynistic jackass. i can imagine horrible people really loving it.